Genre
Contemplative
The contemplative picture turns the viewer inward. It is the register of the reader by a window, the saint at study, the lone figure before a wide landscape — pictures that ask you to slow down and think alongside them. Stillness here is not emptiness but attention.
Key artists
Works
Sir Anthony Mildmay, Knight of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire
Magnolia
Sunday at the Church of Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, Paris
The Choir of the Capuchin Church in Rome
Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery in Brussels
Queen Nefertari Playing Senet
The Musician
Preparing Dough, Tomb of Rekhmire
The Natchez
Attributes of Music
A Windy Day on the Pont des Arts
Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming
An Egyptian in a Doorway
Roman Girl at a Fountain
Inter artes et naturam (Between Art and Nature)
The Missionary's Adventures
An Artist Painting a Heraldic Shield in a Cabinet of Curiosities
拾遺古徳伝絵断簡|Illustrated Biography of Hōnen (Shūikotokūden-e)
Sifting Meal, Tomb of Rekhmire
Funeral Procession, Tomb of Pairy
Parisian Street Scene
Aretino in the Studio of Tintoretto
Consolation of Ariadne
The Lute Player
Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory
Una escena de la Inquisición
A Man Asleep Alongside a Dog and a Horse
Don Quixote and the Dead Mule
Trimming Wood with an Adze, Tomb of Rekhmire
Sandal Maker, Tomb of Rekhmire
南宋 馬和之 詩經小雅鴻雁之什六篇圖 卷|Courtly Odes, Beginning with "Wild Geese"
Book Cover
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
Harbor Scene
Sculptor's Studio
An Interesting Story (Miss Ray)
Interior of a Kitchen
Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye Enthroned Beneath a Kiosk, Tomb of Anen
The African Sentinel
Macomb's Dam Hotel
The Corinthian Maid
The prince and Nikfal are joined by Khalis and the Mukhlis who are the grateful snake and frog in human form, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
Krishna Fluting
Untitled
The Net Mender (Garnbinderen)
Arab Warrior
The Hermit
Woman Cooling Herself
Monju on a Lion
Green and Gold
The Third Princess with her Cat, from the "New Herbs I" (Wakana I) chapter The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari}
Roundel with Architecture (from a series of The Septem Artes Mechanicae)
The Six Poetic Immortals
Arabs on the March
The Dark Mountain, No. 1
Courtesan-Dancer (Shirabyōshi) for the New Year
Famous Women
The Celebration of the Mass
Carpenter Making a Chair, Tomb of Rekhmire
Fishermen
明/清 佚名 人物故事圖 卷|Family Visit
Monks in the Cloister of the Church of Gesù e Maria, Rome
A Bashi-Bazouk
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child
Graziella
Preparing and Cooking Cakes, Tomb of Rekhmire
Victims of the Fiesta
Fishing and Fowling, Tomb of Ipuy
Interior View of the Metropolitan Museum of Art when in Fourteenth Street
Two Men at a Table, Man Eating (from Switzerland 1869 Sketchbook)
Young Woman Praying
Young Woman Reading
A Circus Boy
Plaque with Censing Angels
Man Holding a Bottle and a Cup
Woman Reading
The Laundress
Seated Arab Man with Horse![Margarethe Vöhlin [reverse]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/bernhard-strigel--margarethe-vohlin-reverse--01f4c80425fbb8fe-w320.webp)
Margarethe Vöhlin [reverse]
Hound and Hunter![Hans Roth [reverse]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/bernhard-strigel--hans-roth-reverse--9e98efc46bbdf23c-w320.webp)
Hans Roth [reverse]
Saints Cyprian, Vitus, Stephan, and Cornelius
羅漢図|An Arhat Reading a Sutra by Moonlight
Young Woman with a Book
Et gadekær. Maglebylille
Design for a Wall Monument
Breaking a Plum Branch on a Snowy Night; Bamboo in Snow
The Artist's Wife (Périe, 1849–1887) Reading
Relief of a Bishop
幻の源氏物語絵巻 「葵」|“Leaves of Wild Ginger” (Aoi), from the Phantom Genji Scrolls (Maboroshi no Genji monogatari emaki)
The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)
Man Carrying Loaves, Tomb of Rekhmire
Study of Two Figures
Head of a Woman
Pounding Meal, Tomb of Rekhmire
Poem on the Theme of Snow
Hotei with a Child
Appraisement
Roundel with two Kings from an Adoration Group
Heraldic Panel of Wilhelm von Weitingen
Study Head of a Woman
Drilling a Stone Vase, Tomb of Rekhmire
Sandal Maker, Tomb of Rekhmire
Bust of a Bishop
Nourmahal
Analytical Study of a Woman's Head Against Buildings
Dawn
Girl Weaving a Garland
Tondo mirror frame
Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara
A Boy with a Cat—Morning
Roundel with Susanna Led to Judgement
East River
Woman Standing Beside Railing with Poodle
Wood and Leather Craftsmen, Tomb of Hapu
The Trinity in an Initial B
The Morning Paper
Woman Reading under a Mosquito Net
Ariwara Narihira (825–880), from the Fujifusa version of Thirty-six Immortal Poets
Courtesan Reading a Letter
Trompe l'oeil with Palettes and Miniature
Untitled
Peasant Girl with a White Headcloth
The Spanish Gypsy
Study of the Head of a Youth Gazing Upward
Metal Working, Tomb of Rekhmire
Reverie
Courtyard, Tetuan, Morocco
Activities of the Twelve Months (Tsukinami-e)
Standing Apostle
Desdemona (The Song of the Willow)
A Prince Performs Austerities (recto); Shiva and His Followers Return to Mount Kailash (verso), from a Romance of Chandrabhanu and Lavanyavati of Upendra Bhanja (1670–1740)
Krishna Ferrying Radha Across the Yamuna River (recto)
Scholar Watching the Waterfall
Baby Krishna Asking for Butter from Yashoda, from a Kalighat album
The Curious One
Raja Dalip Singh of Guler on a Dais
The Approach of Krishna. Page from a Rasamanjari
Sacrificial Fire, from the "Tula Ram" Bhagavata Purana
Gazing at a Waterfall
Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest
Krishna's Insomnia, Page from a Rasikapriya
Krishna and Radha Under Mt. Govardhan
Krishna quells the serpent Kaliya (verso), from a Kalighat album
The Young Eastern Woman
Vasudeva (Krishna's Father) Fleeing with Krishna Encounters a Cobra and a Jackal (verso), from a Kalighat album
Rakkan (Arhat)
A prince riding a composite elephant
Paintings after Ancient Masters: Laozi Riding an Ox
A group of militia men (schutters), 1529 (middle panel)
Holy Water Font by St Peter's Basilica in Rome
Sir Christopher Hatton
Adam and Eve
The Mill Stream
Urban II Deliberates with Saint Bruno
Popular Wall-Painting
Lady Ise by the Riverbank
Anubis Weighing the Heart, Tomb of Nakhtamun
ALUM
The Chinese Poet Pan Lang on a Donkey
Devotional pendant
Heraldic Panel of Barbara von Zimmern
Cassone
Untitled
Abstraction
Tenjin Traveling to China
Roundel with Mordecai Overhearing the Conspirators
Untitled
Rushes and Two Birds
Harlequin with a Guitar
Plum Blossoms
Standing Courtesan
Mountain and Sky
Study for "The Well"
Heraldic Panel with Arms of the House of Hapsburg
Naples
Roundel with the Blinding of Zaleucus of Locria
Syrians Bringing an Ingot and a Chariot, tomb of Rekhmire
View of a Ruined English Abbey
Four Figures
Roundel with Wild Man Supporting a Heraldic Shield
Curtain of the Tabernacle, one of six illustrated leaves from the Postilla Litteralis (Literal Commentary) of Nicholas of Lyra
Theater-Mountain-Construction
The Giralda, Seville
Armorial Roundel
14th Street Theatre
Fudō Myōō with Four Attendants, Outlined in Seed Syllables
Negro Masks
A Collection
Roundel with Susanna In Judgement
Wind Wheel
Fishboat
Quatrefoil Roundel with Arms and Secular Scenes
The Letter
Untitled
Shore Road
Three Women by a Garden
Untitled![For a hundred years [I have been] a person with no attachments](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/jiun--for-a-hundred-years-i-have-been-a-person-with-no-attachments--b29f06e3a79d2459-w320.webp)
For a hundred years [I have been] a person with no attachments
Frequently asked questions
What is Contemplative?
Contemplative is a mood in painting. The contemplative picture turns the viewer inward.
How many Contemplative works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 21,788 public-domain Contemplative works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Contemplative artists?
Key Contemplative artists in the collection include Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Jean Honoré Fragonard and John Singer Sargent.